Sweeney Tom
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Also lmfao the Wyatts are beyond done if they can't even win a battle royal nobody else is in
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Also lmfao the Wyatts are beyond done if they can't even win a battle royal nobody else is in
Jimmy King
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Man, Lesnar vs. Strowman would be killer. I would love to see that. Strowman is the future.
avengers23
Banned
WrestleMania match against Mr. Gail Kim, Robert Irvine.
Guy Fieri will join the Bullet Club and headline Wrestle Kingdom 12.
Dick Justice
Banned
It was chanted right after the dive.
Professor Beef
Banned
This is all Net_Wrecker's fault. Notice that when he starts posting a bit more regularly, all this news about Kane starts pouring in.
KANE
IN 2016
They treated him as the bump man to protect the tall guy who can't move and the huskey guy who can't move.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They did a marketability study among current fans and Reigns was the highest ranking regular guy (other than Cena). The problem to me is that I find it unlikely whatever appeal he has goes away as a heel.
Owens did horrible in the same study; Styles was high again.
Owens did horrible in the same study; Styles was high again.
Dude ain't going anywhere. I imagine he's pretty much guaranteed a backstage job.
JesseEwiak
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From the latest Observer -
Professor Beef
Banned
Remember, people: vote with your wallets. Real fans are, after all.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I still think Owens is already a big star and probably going to get a run at the title within a couple years. Dude does his job well and does everything he can to sell merch. The only people working harder to shill random shit are the New Day.
JesseEwiak
Member
I remember in late era WCW, they handed out surveys to fans at house shows and TV shows. (Then promptly ignored what the fans told them.) So, probably that, plus focus groups and Internet surveys.
serenewarfare
Banned
Reigns is obviously going to rate highly in polls like this. He's one of the only guys who gets a real push. He's fucking everywhere. On every poster. Every magazine. Every ad promotion. When you tell your casual audience for so long "hey, this is the guy you should care about", eventually they'll take to it. The problem for them is that the audience going to TV tapings aren't taking it.
Yeah, go out and buy those Bryan shirts!
Interesting.
The entire audience, or the ones you can hear whining?
Sweeney Tom
Banned
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JesseEwiak
Member
Is that actually a problem if the people still pay hundreds of dollars and fill up the arena to boo Roman when on the other three nights a week, Roman gets heavily cheered at house shows in Corpus Christi and Tulsa?
SallyIsNow
Banned
WHAT?! The guy who the WWE has been centered around for a year ranked highly? Get the fuck outta town!
Huge surprise about AJ tho.
Huge surprise about AJ tho.
[cheap pop for Tulsa mention]
So is the audience taking to Reigns or rejecting him? The narrative is getting hard to follow, friends.
No. It's not. WWE aren't receiving the negative feedback that counts for Reigns.
Marks will just pay hundreds of dollars to sit down at Mania and boo Roman. It's a win win for WWE. Fucking idiot marks. We could have the final shot Mania be an unprecedented amount of booing from the HIGHEST GROSSING WWE EVENT OF ALL TIME. You think they care? You think Roman's going heel or being pulled back on? He's the guy because he's not turning anyone away.
JesseEwiak
Member
The "real" fans are rejecting, Reigns. You know, young men in black t-shirts.
Yup. Vince. Always. Wins. If you pay $9.99 to watch Nakamura on Saturday, that's a reason to push Reigns. You spend $50 to go to RAW to cheer Kevins Owens, that's a reason to push Reigns. If you want to stop Reigns from being a top guy, you have to stop giving Vincent K. McMahon money.
Dark Ninja
Member
Wins and loses don't matter! Oh but Cena and Reigns can never be pinned or submitted. Unless by HHH
SallyIsNow
Banned
Yo, if I can be real real with you. I ain't even sure what that study means.
serenewarfare
Banned
If it's not a problem this year, then why was it a problem last year, or the year before that? If the narrative is "fans chanting or booing doesn't matter, only sales and polls do" then why did they pull the rug out from under Reigns last year, and why did they pull away from the Orton/Batista main event?
Obviously they think the audience reaction matters to some degree, otherwise the last two years wouldn't have had plans change.
It appears that the audience is rejecting Reigns by paying lots of money to the shows where he is a very prominent part of the action! Definitely an interesting way of rejecting a talent, we'll see if it works in the long run.
The reasons why Reigns got a great position (WWE pushing him to the moon for over a year) doesn't matter
They will look to the results and keep the plans with the Roman Empire. Let's hope that Seth can save us when he returns
And Roman don't need a heel turn.
The kids, women and the people who buys merchs love him, while the internet fans and most of the crowds hate him.
He's a "real" heel and a "storyline" face at the same time.
They will look to the results and keep the plans with the Roman Empire. Let's hope that Seth can save us when he returns
And Roman don't need a heel turn.
The kids, women and the people who buys merchs love him, while the internet fans and most of the crowds hate him.
He's a "real" heel and a "storyline" face at the same time.
JesseEwiak
Member
Because they got cold feet, incorrectly. I'm the person who thinks Batista should've won at WM30 and Reigns should've won last year.
They still had other people around back then that fans had a reason to care about, like Daniel Bryan. Now the only ones they have left are injured or further devalued.
Wait why would it be correct for roman and especially batista to win anything?
Because being a proper wrestling fan isn't about supporting the performers that resonate with you or who you think are the most talented, it's about supporting the performers for whom doing so will make you feel like you know the most about the business.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
It's really weird.
I just think this should be used as a friendly reminder that adolescent to...adult males that start chants at wrestling shows almost always align with the majority opinion of WrassleGAF, yet absolutely do not represent the audience as a whole. You should in no way allow that to represent a universal or even majority opinion, yet it's often passed off as such around here (e.g. "the audience thinks..."). You feel me, friends?
In my opinion, they are afraid of stuff like "#cancelwwenetwork", because it has the potential to hurt the company. It's not unusual for the internet to form opinions and attract followers, then people who are potential buyers might stay away and people that currently buy might stop doing so.
People can say it's just whining, that it doesn't do anything, doesn't matter, etc, but I strongly believe it does, as bad press is always a bad thing.
I'm the person who thinks WWE did the right thing when they gave the belt to Bryan at 30 and then to Rollins at 31, so you're totally going to disagree with me lol
JesseEwiak
Member
Well, thankfully, along with being Best for Business, I would've throughly enjoyed Hollywood Star Batista as a champion and I also would've loved one of the best five or ten workers in the company being champion last year instead of a guy who can't talk or know how to work as a heel wrestler because he has to get all his flippy shit in.
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